Monday, December 8: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Monday, December 8: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Gn 3:9-15, 20/Eph 1:3-6, 11-12/Lk 1:26-38

“God chose us in Christ before the world was founded, to be without blemish, to be full of love.” Eph. 1

Some days I believe in Eden’s ancient curse. I turn from the headlines, unable to hope. Earthquakes, floods, the portents of global warming; human crimes as enormous as war, as random as road rage. It is not much comfort that Mary’s heart is immaculate. She seems above it all on her pedestal. There are so many of us, the soiled and rapacious.

But Mary is one of us. She is the source of Jesus’ humanity. Mary is what we were before the Fall. Her capacity is ours, too. She considers an unlikely invitation and say, Yes! Risking the long shot, longer odds, she agrees to cooperate in an outlandish scheme to redeem Creation.

Our human nature calls us to do the same. The risky, Yes! The unlikely plan, the random act of kindness. On a day of horrors, I need to get busy, however feeble my actions seem. Drop by drop, they may tip the balance. We are all chosen to be full of love and menders of the world.

Mantra: I am chosen to be full of love.

Ann Denham